Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

by K.J. Charles

“My dear chap, this is a bookshop. There’s never anywhere better to be.

They are driven by staggering greed at the top and fanatic idealism below, and between greed and fanaticism people can justify anything.

‘love’ means an awful lot of things. I think more people should understand that.”

Why do we count the cost of change, but not the cost of the world staying the same?”

“I know I had to do it: that was why I did it. I don’t stab people by accident.”

“Your ability to inflict damage with words as well as knives is noted.

“Oh, please. You know who you are, and you wear it well. I really don’t know why you listen to me.”